North Fork Lager | Payette Brewing

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Notes / Commercial Description:
This American Lager has a laid-back personality and pairs well with just about all edibles. Hops bring a mix of woody, green, floral and fruit notes with subtle herb and spice character. North Fork is a sessionable beer with lower alcohol content for a quick, smooth run. Pack plenty for your post river run refreshment.

Reviews by Spikester:

Poured clear gold with three fingers of white foamy head. Average retention but fair lacing.
Smell is clean malts and some herbal hops.
Taste is similar with smooth malts and a nice hop presence.
Mouthfeel is medium with just enough carbonation. Finish slightly dry with a lingering bitterness.
Overall a nice example of this style although not many comparable to try.
A plus for me is the the low abv. Good flavor and easy drinking.

More User Reviews:

Pale yellow with a fluffy, creamy head. Floral and fruity in the nose. Smooth, light in body and carbonation with a semi-grassy hop character with herbal undertones and a soft citrus oiliness. The malts are a bit sweet with a dry, bready finish. North Fork is a good lager, but it's missing the clean, crisp carbonation that the style is known for. If Payette adds that, they’ll have a great one.

12oz single can - sure glad I waited for these to arrive in this format, rather than paying stupid import draft prices last month.

This beer pours a clear, bright pale golden yellow colour, with one finger of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat bubbly off-white head, which leaves a bit of low-lying, garden hedge-like lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.

It smells of bready and crackery cereal malt, a further toasted graininess, lager yeast, some muddled pome and citrus fruitiness, and plain earthy, floral, and herbal green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, some watery minerality, ethereal orange and lemon citrus notes, underripe apples, a further estery yeastiness, and more meek leafy, weedy, and floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is pretty tame in its barely-there frothiness, the body an adequate medium weight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess seeping in once things warm up a tad around here. It finishes trending dry, the cereal graininess kind of putting the hammer down.

Overall - this comes across as a straight-forward version of the style, nothing complicated, and easy enough to put back in numbers, I would imagine. No off-flavours, and essentially well-made, so check it out if you're in the market for such a thing.

Clear straw colored pour with a white one-finger head. Grainy aroma with a hint of lemon. Taste follows the nose with grain and a hint of noble hops. Light bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes with flavors of grain and yeast.

Bone white head on-top a pee yellow beer, showing good head retention and lacing. The aroma is light overall;grass and aromas and little else. This lager sounded like a great idea to pair with a moules-frites lunch,and while palatable, could have been so much more. Hay in the raw deliver a promising start. Sourdough bread yeast gives the base a different accent to the common lager, however this beer does go astringent quickly, which is the real sin. Still, it is better than the Bud Light and Corona's commonly found at parties.